Weapons makers hindering reform

12:45 PM,
Feb. 5, 2013

Written by

Hal Hogstrom
OPINION

In all of the talk about guns there has been a strange absence among the concerned parties; the weapons makers. Actually, those notables didn't need to participate in the debate because their "employees" at the NRA spoke for them. But though those two entities seem to be singing from the same hymnal, they are not. The NRA assumes a rigid pro-Second Amendment posture while Colt, Winchester, Sturm Ruger, et al., pledge their allegiance to profit.

There is much grumbling among those in the gun trade about government regulation, but little appreciation has been shown by them for the very real help ...